US Patent Issued to WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 24 for "Coverage-path planning method for single unmanned surface mapping vessel" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,211, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Wuhan, China).

"Coverage-path planning method for single unmanned surface mapping vessel" was invented by Yong Ma (Wuhan, China), Jing Wang (Wuhan, China), Huaxiong Bi (Wuhan, China), Xinping Yan (Wuhan, China) and Yuanzhou Zheng (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optimized coverage-path planning method for a single unmanned surface mapping vessel (USMV) is implemented with a system including a computer processor executing a computer program loaded in a storage device and implanting the method. The method includes rasterizing and initializing an envi...